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Jeff Bezos Stepping Down From Amazon, See His Statement To Employees, Consumers: Full Text 02/02/21 AT 4:54 PM After unprecedented success as the Chief Executive Officer of online retail giant Amazon, Jeff Bezos is officially stepping down from his role in the company and will be handing over the reins as CEO to Andy Jassy. Bezos on Tuesday revealed his plans to step down in an email featured on the company’s website, stating that he was going to be putting focus as Executive Chair of the board on other passions and projects for the company. Read his full statement below: Fellow Amazonians...

Fellow Amazonians: I’m excited to announce that this Q3 I’ll transition to Executive Chair of the Amazon Board and Andy Jassy will become CEO. In the Exec Chair role, I intend to focus my energies and attention on new products and early initiatives. Andy is well known inside the company and has been at Amazon almost as long as I have. He will be an outstanding leader, and he has my full confidence. This journey began some 27 years ago. Amazon was only an idea, and it had no name. The question I was asked most frequently at that time was, “What’s the internet?” Blessedly, I haven’t...

Jeff Bezos stepping aside as Amazon CEO later this year Charles Krupa/AP Amazon founder Jeff Bezos during the JFK Space Summit at the John F. Kennedy Presidential Library in Boston, Wednesday, June 19, 2019. (AP Photo/Charles Krupa) and last updated 2021-02-02 16:30:03-05 Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos will be transitioning away from the top job in 2021, according to a letter he wrote to staff Tuesday. “I’m excited to announce that this Q3 I’ll transition to Executive Chair of the Amazon Board and Andy Jassy will become CEO,” Jassy currently heads up Amazon's cloud business, Amazo...

Amazon will have a new CEO as Jeff Bezos transitions to executive chair later this year Share this story Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos will step down as CEO and transition to a new position at the company as executive chair of the Amazon board in Q3 2021. Andy Jassy, who currently serves as CEO of Amazon Web Services (AWS), will replace Bezos as Amazon CEO. “Being the CEO of Amazon is a deep responsibility, and it’s consuming. When you have a responsibility like that, it’s hard to put attention on anything else,” commented Bezos in an email announcing ...

Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos to step down this year, replaced by AWS chief Andy Jassy in stunning turn for tech giant February 2, 2021 at 3:17 pm Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos. (GeekWire File Photo / Kevin Lisota) Jeff Bezos will step down as CEO of Amazon, becoming executive chairman of the company he conceived 27 years ago on a road trip to Seattle, and built into one of the world’s most valuable companies. Bezos will make the transition in the third quarter of this year, when he will be replaced as CEO by longtime lieutenant Andy Jassy, who made his mark as the leader of Amazon’s fast-growing cloud b...